This is a project we undertook on behalf of the cultural Buganda government to conserve its 1600 year old natural resource cultural/ natural resource foundation revealed by the King's lake

1. The KABAKA’S LAKE ITS SIGNIFICANCE, THREATS AND PROPOSED INTERVENTIONS

7. The Kabaka’s lake in pictures Significance, threats, and proposed interventions

8. THE VARIOUS LAND-USES Subsistence agriculture

9. Poor Maintenance practices Industrial Construction Settlement in surrounding wetland Car washing

10. Poor Waste Disposal Brick laying/ clay mining NOTE : There is an urgent need to draw a general management plan for the Kabaka’s lake that would seek to sustainably discourage and eliminate poor land-uses practices as shown above as well as promote good land-uses practices such as wetland conservation, cultural practices, tourism and others which would ensure that this great resource exists in perpetuality.

11. THE EFFECTS OF THREATS The water is green (algae) due to excessive pollution related to the reduced wetland and thence eutrophication The pictures above show that the lake is quickly and consistently turning into dry land due to excessive pollution

12. ECOLOGICAL VALUES OF THE KABAKA’S LAKE HABITAT FOR THE THREATENED CRESTED CRANE HABITAT TO NUMEROUS SPECIES OF MIGRATORY AND INDIGENOUS BIRDS

13. THE WETLAND VEGETATION IS A STORAGE AND PURIFIER OF WATER BEFORE IT ENTERS THE KABAKA’S LAKE. THE LAKE ITSELF IS IMPORTANT FOR THE MICROCLIMATE (TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL) OF KAMPALA. IT IS ALSO HOME TO NUMEROUS WETLAND SPECIES SUCH AS BIRDS, FISH AND MICRO-ORGANISMS. THESE NEED TO BE CONSERVED, HOWEVER WITHOUT IMMEDIATE ACTION, THEY WILL SOON TURN INTO SETTLEMENTS OR AGRICULTURAL FIELDS